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View of the Guliya Ice Cap on the Tibetan Plateau, showing a steep wall of exposed glacial ice beside rocky terrain, with a person standing in the foreground.
Lonnie Thompson and Colleagues Confirm Ancient Ice Preserved in Guliya Ice Cap

Lonnie Thompson and colleagues recently published new research in Science Advances revealing that ice preserved within the Guliya Ice Cap in northwestern Tibet dates back more than 100…

A group of researchers hiking the summit of Nevado Huascarán surrounded by snowy mountains.
Kara Lamantia confirms that tropical regions are a historic source of methane

Kara Lamantia and her colleagues recently published research in Nature using ice cores from Peru’s Nevado Huascarán to produce the first global record of historical tropical methane. The…

Line graphs showing mineral dust concentrations in Huascarán ice cores from 1960–2019. Dust deposition increases over time, with the largest particles contributing most of the dust mass.
Austin Weber et al. investigate the influence of mineral dust on glacial albedo in the tropical Andes

Austin Weber and his colleagues recently published “On the Influence of Mineral Dust on Glacial Albedo at Nevado Huascarán (Cordillera Blanca, Peru)” in Journal of Geophysical…

A world map showing river storage variability across 61 basins, shaded from light to dark blue to indicate increasing variability. South America’s northern basin shows the highest values. Gray shading marks areas not assessed, including Antarctica.
SWOT Wide‑Swath Altimetry Reveals Global River Bank Morphology and Storage Variability

The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences (SES) Professor and Interim Director of the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Michael Durand and his team have been published in…

A map of North America showing bird‑decline intensity, with red and orange clusters in the U.S. Midwest and lighter yellow and green areas elsewhere.
Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture

Marta Jarzyna, associate professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology and principal investigator at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, and her colleagues have…

Ellen Mosley-Thompson smiling wearing a bright-blue zip-up jacket leaning against a railing.
CryoRad from sea ice to ocean salinity, a new microwave approach could boost polar observations

Ken Jezek is the lead author, and Joel Johnson is a co-author.

Corresponding authors: Giovanni Macelloni, and others.

Wideband Radiometry From P to S Band for Monitoring Polar…

An engineered spherical SiO₂ microparticle.
Ohio State Researchers Help Advance Measurement of Nanoparticles and Microparticles Using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry Technology

A team of scientists, including several affiliated with The Ohio State University, has made significant progress in understanding how to more accurately measure nanoparticles and microparticles…

Thatched roof houses. Rural life, a remote paradise island under blue skies and white clouds and palms.
New Hybrid Forecasting Approach Significantly Improves El Niño Predictions

A recent international study published in Nature Communications has unveiled a new forecasting method that significantly enhances the prediction of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)…

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Glaciological and Geophysical Perspectives on Tropical Ice from a Scientific Survey of Mt. Huascarán

A new study published by Cambridge University Press 's Journal of Glaciology presents critical findings from a 2019 expedition to Nevado Huascarán, Peru's highest mountain and home to one…